Dungeons & Dragons

The dragon awaits!

Dateline 1982: Donald Fagen has since left Steely Dan and is enjoying success with his single I.G.Y (International Geophysical Year), Prince's Little Red Corvette would dominate radio airplay the following summer, and a 12 year old boy, me, spends most of his free time exploring the caverns of his imagination. The game was Dungeons & Dragons, a role-playing game which allowed anyone, even a junior high school kid, to leave the mundane world behind and step over the horizon to seek adventure and fortune in the robes of a wily wizard or the armor of a brave hero. Now, thirty years after its first appearance, the Dungeons & Dragons game is still going strong and its escapism is even more relevant in the work-a-day world of frustrating politics, bills, and deadlines of a 35 year old man. To arms, my companions, the dragon awaits!

Roman, United States - 18 March 2005